Demon atc Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 23, 189I. A GREYPORT LEGEND. They ran through the streets of the seaport town ; ! They peered from the decks of the ships that lay; 3 The cold sea-fog that came whitening dewn Was never as cold or white as they. “Ho, Starbuck and Pinckney and Tenterden ! Run for yeur shallops, gather your men, Scatter your boats on the lower bay.” Good cause for fear! In the thick mid-day The hulk that lay by the rotten pier, Filled with the children in happy play, Parted its moorings and drifted clear— Drifted clear beyond reach or call, Thirteen children they were in all— All drifted inte the lower bay.! Said a hard-faced skipper, “God help us all ! She will not float till the turning tide 1” Said his wife, “My darling will hear my call, Whether in sea or Heaven she bide.” And she lifted a quavering voice and high, Wild and strange as a seabird’s cy, Till they shuddered and wondered at her side. The tog drove down on each laboring crew, Veiled each from each, and the sky and shore; There was nota sound but the breath she SW. And the fap of the water and ereak of oar, And they felt the breath of the downs, fresh blown O’er leagues of clover and cold, grey stone, But not from the lips that had gone before. They come no more. But they tell the tale, That, when.fogs are on the harbor reef, ‘I'he mackerel fishers shorten sail ; For the signal they know will bring relief ; For the the voices of children, siill.at play In a phantom hulk that drifts away Through channels whose waters never fall. It is but a foolish shipman’s tale, A theme for.a poet's idle page.; 3 But still, when the mists of doubt prevail And we lie becalmed by the sheres of Age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voice of the children gone before, Drawing the seul to its anchorage. TE THAT PREITY LITTLE SIMPLETON. BY VIRGIE F. HARRIS. a young lady. and as she owed me $20, I trusted to that totide me over, until I could resume work. But I have been unable to collect the money, and we are penniless.” Bravely said, my beautiful Spartan ! I thought, as I looked at the fine, pale tace with its troubled eyes. The Spar- tan youth, with the wolt gnawing at making this contession. Behind that marble calmness, my beautiful Galatea what a Vesuvius must be throbbing and seething in your heart and brain! Injuries and i.justice that you can’t forget—neglect and coldness from those who should have befriended! “Yes, doctor,” said Mrs. Trevor, “Helen kept her troubles from me as long as she could, and has allowed me to want for nothing, but failing to col- lect the money due her has been a great hardship. The poor child has not tasted food since yesterday. She covered her face with her hands and the tears tricklek down through the thin fingers. I turned like one shot, and stared at that beautiful girl, standing so quiet. and composed. Starving! starving! She, fit to be a queen, and suffering for bread! I stalked like a caged licn up and down the narrow room. “Oh, the heartless rich! The cold, heartless rich !” “More thoughtless than heartless, I think, Dr. Heathcote.” I stopped short as the cool, even tone fell on my ear, and marching up to her took both her hands in mine. I was old enough to be her father. ‘Helen, why didn’t you come to me? Why didn’t you come to me?” The tears came to her eyes—the first I had seen there. “We are such strangers to you. I would not have presumed—— “Strangers be hanged! Excuse me, Helen. But, my child, you are too proud ! There comes a time in the life of most, when we must accept help his vitals, suffered less than you did in | everywhere for you, Helen!” What a silly little thing she was, but how pretty.! All smiles and dimples, rosy cheeks and fluffy brown hair, shading, laughing blue eyes! 1 thought, as Isat opposite her that day in the sireet car, and heard her girlish prattle, that:I had never seensuch a combination of:silliness and prettiness. —when pride must be laid aside and we must stoop! very fine thing, my dear, but the proudly independent man is not the happy man. ure in receiving as well as giving is the one who gets the most good out of life, because closer drawn to his fellow man. Independence is a He who can find pleas- Her silly chatter provoked me desper- | Now, my dear, I'm going to get wine ately, for I was intensely interested in an article in thelast Medical Journal, which had direct bearing on a compli- cated ease I was going:that morningito for your mother and nourishing food for you.” * She put out her hand protestingly, and again that blush of humbled pride treat. An accident that morning to | mounted her face. one of my horses and a stupid blunder of my coachman had forced me to take: the car, and I felt as .cross as a bear, | reckoning by and by. again this afternoon. and looked so, I know, for when iI caught her eye she tossed her silly lit- tle head and turned away with a pout. I heard enough about papa, balls, | m the opera etc. to guess that she was an idolized, only «child and something | round of visite. “Your mother’s life depends upon timely aid. You and I can have our I will look in Soon I had sentup wine, fruits and well prepared food to Helen and her other. TI could not dismiss them from my mind for a moment during my 1 could understand of a belle. As I was too old to ignore the vacnum 1n the pretty head, for the sake of the pretty face, I was much ire- lieved when Dora ‘Copperfield—as :I' meatally styled her—and her friend, left the car. It was-strange, but after the first chance meeting, 1 was con- I caught glimpses of her nestling down in the cushions, as her carriage dashed with a flash and a glitter by my office. At! the opera the fates thwew me in her stantly meeting (Dera. the agony of humiliation that poor and sorrow hanging over her from her mother’s illness. been long with them ; it was apparent that their better days had been recent. Then as I thought how that rich girl's thoughtless, heartless indifference and neglect to pay her, had aggravated Helea’s shame and grief, my indigna- tion kuew no bounds, and when I reached Mrs. Trevor's humble room that afternoon, I had worked myself girl was suffering—as well as the fear Poverty had not! neighborhoed. She wes with a fat, pompous-looking, middle-aged waa, 1n whom I took to be ‘papa.’ I men- ta a furor of anger against that un- known transgressor, Helen's late em- tally dubbed him “old ‘money-bags,” | ployer. I was boiling over with rage, and hated him-as heartily as I did his |W daughter—he looked 80 complacent | fo hich increased, if possjble, when I und Mrs. Trevor worse and noted and listened with such evident relish {Helen's troubled, anxious face. After to her ceaseless, silly prattle. One day I was summosed in great haste to the bedside. of a petient.whom I bad attended aifew timesibefore. She and her daughterlived in a quarter of the city which my practiceseldom call- ed me, und among peoplellonly-served two were as poar as many {I attended | free I couldmot dare refuse the fee they promptly tendered after each wisit, Of them I knew nothing further ¢han that they were ladies. [There was a proud, independence, a dignified reticence that commanded eey respect. I was much attracted by them bath; the motl er | 80 was refined and gentle, and bore with | sh doing all T could for my patient, who soon fell into a doze, I called Helen out into the hall. * “Helen, give me the name and ad- dress of the person that owes you.” She looked at me inquiringly as I took out my note book and pencil, but for sweet charity’ssake. Though these | said: “Miss Fley Garrison, 2010 L ave- aue."”’ I wrote it down hurriedly and ‘with out another word was on my way to find this girl. 1 had but one” thought —to0 bring her to see the sorrow she had eaused. It might teach her a les- a and cause her to feel a little of the ame and mortification Helen had to fortitude her sufferings; the daughter | endure. was beautiful, proud, dignified, and bravely independent. 1 was anaious to help them, but the opportunity for doing so delicately and without the risk of offending had never yet present- ed itself, and not far my right head would I have effended their brave, proud, reticent poverty. But on this visit the evidences of poverty wee even greater. The room was very bare; evidently they had been forced to pawn many necessary articles. The daughter was -very pale and thin, and something like .despair shone in the beautiful dark «eyes. I found Mrs. Trevor very weak sand low. After I had prescribed for ‘her 1 sat like *‘Micawher,” hoping “something would turn there would he some conversation where I might safely offer aid. I could not leave them in such destitution. T must help them—this was not their place and sphere. and thay must be lifted out by some means. The mother was too weak to talk, and Mise was too much absorbed in her own sad thoughts for conversation, so [ must take the dilemma by the horns. “Hawe you been taking wine as I prescribed, Mrs. Trevor? You are much weaker than when I saw you last, and I had hoped the wine would have built up your strength,” Miss Trevor seemed to struggle with herself. A burning blush suffused her face and neck. At last she raised her head proudly, and with a defiant air looked me full and steadily in the eye as she said in a low voice withouta quiver : *No, Dr. Heathcote. We were not able to follow your prescription, fully. The wine you sent mother was of great benefit to her, and I was able to supply it, also, until last week, when she was taken much worse, requiring my unre- mitting attention, which forced me to stop sewing, my only means of support. But I had just finished some work for up’—that ‘When I drew up before 2010 L ave- nue a carriage stood betore the door and a perty of four stood ready to en- ter. A slender, middle-aged lady a fine looking young man, “old mone bags” and Dora Copperfield! Ribbons flying, curls blowing, draperies flutter- ing and merry laughter. So Miss empty head was the culprit. I was not surprised atall. [fI had been a kamight of the middle ages I showing her the trouble and sorrow